Doug receives a three-year, $720k NSF grant to develop microfluidics devices to study synthetic bact
- CIDAR
- Jun 23, 2022
- 1 min read
The collaborative project led by Prof. Lauren Andrews at UMass-Amherst aims to engineer synthetic bacteria to neutralize toxic contaminants in drinking water. One of the CIDAR lab's goals is to design and build a high-throughput multilayer Microfluidics platform for studying and maintaining bacterial communities to analyze temporal signaling at single-cell resolution. This work is part of our Postdoc Samuel Oliveira's and our grad student Ron Zhou's research at BU.
Find out more about it at: https://www.umass.edu/news/article/chemical-engineer-receives-14m-nsf-grant-create-programmable-living-devices-drinking https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2211040&HistoricalAwards=false
A well-deserved grant! Using microfluidic devices to study synthetic bacteria is definitely the way forward. Staying focused in this field is key, but so is taking short breaks to avoid burnout. Lately, I’ve found that minigame is perfect for a quick "brain cool-down" between writing sessions. It really helps me regain focus. Congrats to the whole CIDAR team!
By engineering bacteria to neutralize toxic Cute Games contaminants, the team led by Lauren Andrews is pushing the boundaries of how biological systems can be harnessed for environmental remediation.